BROADVIEW HEIGHTS - City Council held the first official reading of an ordinance to create a second Special Planning District at its Dec. 28 meeting. This ordinance is a separate issue from the one planned for the city’s center.

The decision was inspired, in part, by numerous land owners along Route 82, near Avery Road, who petitioned the city to rezone several parcels from residential to commercial. That is exactly what the ordinance proposes to do. The area is also referred to as Zone C and the Conversion Corridor in conceptual drawings.

“Under no circumstances are we asking people to do anything they don’t want to. People were actually coming to us saying they wanted this,” said Building Director Roger Westfall during the Dec. 28 meeting. “This will make the properties included more marketable when the owners look to sell. If a developer wants to build commercial buildings on the land, they can do.”

“It would basically be a part of a corridor between the town center and the area around Giant Eagle,” said Mayor Sam Alai, adding that both special planning districts, if approved by voters, are part of “building toward the city’s economic future.”

A second reading of the ordinance pertaining to Zone C will be held during council’s Jan. 7 meeting. The ordinance proposing a Special Planning District to develop the city’s center will also be read for a second time during that meeting.

The city continues to encourage residents to attend the meetings, ask questions and give input about these ordinances.

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